Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Killiaghan And Gort, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killiaghan And Gort
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Windmill (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Windmill (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.52183, -8.05329
- SMR number
- RO045-105001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the crest of a low NNW-SSE ridge in a low-lying landscape. Circular tower (ext. diam. 6m; int. diam. 4.2m; H c. 6.6m) of three floors, each upper floor supported on rebates. Opposed doorways face NNW and SSE at the ground floor and there is a blocked window at SW on the ground floor. The first floor has four slit windows and the second floor only two. It stands on a grass-covered mound (RO045-105002-) (diam. of top 28.5m ENE-WSW; 26.9m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 0.35-0.65m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.